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A pair of 19-year-old twin sisters had been stabbed at a Brooklyn bodega early Sunday morning after rejecting their attacker’s advances — with one of many teenagers killed within the assault and the opposite hospitalized in secure situation.
Samyia Spain and her sister, Sanyia, had been with a gaggle of associates and kinfolk inside Slope Natural Plus on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope round 2:20 a.m. when the 2 had been attacked, police and sources mentioned.
According to kinfolk, the assault got here after the suspect tried to hit on the 2 ladies however was shot down.
“He walked in and began hitting on her,” Alphonso Goodson, the ladies’ grandfather, informed The Post. “She mentioned, ‘I don’t wish to be bothered with you. Leave me alone.’ Then the storeowner put him out.
“He began kicking on the door, he began banging on the door,” Goodson mentioned. “I don’t know in the event that they referred to as the police, however at the moment [the storeowner] ought to have referred to as. And then when [the twins] left the shop, that’s when he attacked them.
“He was ready for them,” he added. “He took it the fallacious method. He got here after them. That was fallacious. That was dead fallacious. I hope they catch this man.”
Samyia was stabbed within the chest and was later pronounced dead at New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, whereas her sister was stabbed within the arm and was listed in secure situation on the hospital.
The twins had been with associates at a party earlier within the evening, a girl who recognized herself because the slain teen’s godmother informed The Post.
“She was together with her mom and sister,” the lady, who would solely give her identify as China, mentioned Sunday. “It was an entire bunch of them. They had a recreation evening.
“I don’t even know who he’s,” she mentioned of the attacker, who stays on the free. “I’ve by no means seen him.”
Distraught family members gathered outdoors of the slain teen’s condo constructing simply hours after the deadly assault and mere blocks from the bodega to arrange a makeshift memorial with flowers, teddy bears and candles.
“She was an excellent individual,” one pal informed The Post. “She was in class, she was working. She was very lovable. She didn’t begin any hassle. All she needed to do was have enjoyable. She didn’t should exit like that.
“She wasn’t like a party lady,” the pal mentioned. “It was her first time making an attempt to exit to have enjoyable.”
In a publish on her Instagram web page, Samyia Spain seems to be getting a tattoo on Saturday, seemingly trying ahead to the party.
“Game evening at 9 come out,” a message on the web page reads.
The subsequent publish reveals the time as 9:23 p.m.
“My associates searching for me within the membership however I’m drunk making new associates,” she wrote in her final publish, which reveals her smiling inside an condo.
But the lady’s aunt informed The Post on Sunday that the group did cease off at an area membership after their home party — and mentioned the suspects had been there as properly.
However, Spain didn’t know her assailant, her pal added earlier than blaming the assault on town’s lack of funding for psychological well being providers.
“It was some random individual. It’s shocking, very shocking. It was a kitchen knife,” the pal mentioned.
“You know who I blame? The authorities, for the straightforward reality, y’all reduce all these psychological well being (care) off, and now look who’s working out right here,” they added. “Those are the those that don’t get in hassle. There are a thousand cameras and there’s no arrest.”
A lady on the memorial informed The Post by tears that Spain was her goddaughter.
“They higher catch him, she don’t deserve that,” she mentioned.
The ladies went to the deli after a party and encountered two males who made advances towards them and have become incensed after they rejected their strikes.
“They’re not sober. They get rejected and so they simply escalated it ten-fold. We (had been) all having a superb evening earlier than this,” the witness mentioned. “We simply had left and we went to the shop to get meals. We all had been getting sandwiches, beef patties simply to eat, We’re hungry and wish to go house and this occurs.”
The two males fled the scene, in response to the report.
No arrests have been made and the police investigation is ongoing.
“We’re all taking it very arduous,” Goodson mentioned. “My daughter, she’s taking it fairly arduous. We by no means anticipate nothing like this to occur.”
The in a single day stabbings came about outdoors of the identical bodega the place a girl allegedly executed her ex-girlfriend in broad daylight in a sudden, brazen assault that was captured on surveillance video in 2021.
